Best TV continuity mistakes of 2016

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Step in the Arena - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: After Rackham enters the room and tells Cage to step away, Cage starts to walk to the door and Rackham is standing there with his arms crossed. In the next shot, his hands are down by his side.

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Pilot - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: After the dance, when Jack is talking to The Big Three, he grabs the towel and puts it on the other side of Rebecca. When the scene cuts back to Jack rubbing Rebecca's belly, the towel is still on Jack. Then, when Rebecca's water breaks, it is back to being on the other side of her. (00:03:40 - 00:04:12)

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Ransom - S2-E1

Continuity mistake: When The Barracuda is seen approaching the island on the jet ski, and everyone's watching her, she's standing up. In the next shot she's sitting down. She's back to standing in the next shot.

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Purgatory - S1-E7

Continuity mistake: During the Medici brothers vs. Marco Bello confrontation near the end of the episode Lorenzo grabs a candlestick to defend himself against Marco Bello's knife - you can even notice a candle slipping off the candlestick. As Marco Bello turns to leave the chamber, however, Lorenzo's hands are empty and the candlestick rests on the table. In the next shot he's holding it again, with the candle sitting atop of the candlestick. (00:47:30)

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It Begins - S1-E13

Continuity mistake: When Dmitri and the doctor first try to get Vanessa to feed on human blood, the blood bag keeps switching from full to half-empty from one shot to the next. (00:16:05)

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Blood in the Sand - S2-E9

Continuity mistake: The father of a teen girl murdered in CA receives a letter from a self-proclaimed psychic concerning the murder. He received it at his home in RI, but the letter is addressed to San Diego, CA. The address is shown twice. (00:08:00 - 00:14:00)

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Unclean - S2-E3

Continuity mistake: In the final scene with Father Bennett and Mouse, there is an unlit candle on right side of the 2nd step down as they descend the steps. In the next shot, it's suddenly lit, then unlit again in the following shot.

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Fresh-Like - S3-E4

Continuity mistake: Issa and Nathan both jump into a swimming pool and are shown going completely under water but in the closeups when shown talking their faces and hair are completely dry. (00:22:00)

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A Brave New World - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: When Will tackles Andrew, his shirt is lifted up exposing a blue undershirt that's tucked in, which is also behind his gun. There's two shots of this, but in the next shot, right before Will punches Andrew, we don't see the undershirt.

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Continuity mistake: When the Man in Black wakes up with a noose around his neck, there are only 4 distinct loops in the hangman's knot. A few seconds later, he cuts the rope and collapses to the ground, and there are now 6 distinct loops in the hangman's knot.

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Season 1 generally

Continuity mistake: When Toby/Kunta encounters the British army captain (after strangling the overseer) most of his whipping scars are centered down his middle back, with a few marks on his shoulders. When in the prior episode, the whip struck mostly his lower left backside.

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Paper Orphans - S1-E9

Continuity mistake: The team is in their plane with 3 digital clocks on the wall. The clock on the right jumps from 4:x:x to 22:x:x in the next scene which happens within minutes, and then back to 21:x:x.

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Circles - S1-E5

Continuity mistake: Russell is beat up by his neighbor and his mouth, cheek and chin are smeared with blood. In the next closeup, Russell only has blood on his upper lip and cheek, not on his chin, and then the blood is back on his mouth, cheek and chin. (00:29:00 - 00:30:00)

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